Woman sues neighbours' landlord for spicy food smells

What you cook in your own home is up to you, right? Well that's what you might think but one woman living in London thinks differently.

Joanna Louise Cridlin is suing at the High Court in London over a culinary disagreement with her downstairs neighbours.

Cridlin, who lives on Geraldine Road in Wandsworth, says when her neighbours cook spicy food she is at the receiving end of the 'strong overwhelming vapour of hot chillis'.

That's not all, Ms Cridlin also says the smell 'constricts her airways and burns her windpipe' infusing her home with the smell for as long as eight hours, the Mail Online reports.

She adds that the smell has caused her to choke in her sleep and run out on to her balcony to get fresh air.

Miss Cridlin has lived in the flat for almost 40 years and her neighbours are thought to have moved in only three years ago with problems arising around Christmas 2014, Metro reports.

So, after all this you may expect that she is suing her neighbours directly for what she describes as 'anti-social behaviour', think again.

Cridlin, who is also claiming compensation, is suing the landlords, Viridian Housing, in the hopes that it will make them do something about the situation.

It's not just the chilli fumes that have upset Miss Cridlin, she also states that the landlords are responsible for increased levels of carbon monoxide in her home as a result of a faulty boiler.

It's unclear what defence Viridian Housing have entered at the moment.

A woman living in Sydney, Australia was last year awarded more than $11,000 in compensation by her landlord after her flat was deemed 'unliveable' thanks to the cigarette smoke fumes coming from her neighbour's property.

Although Lynette Laming initially brought up the incident with the building manager the problem didn't stop, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

She then took her landlord to tribunal and the judgement stated; "It is unacceptable for a tenant and a child to live in an environment which smells of tobacco smoke, and particularly where the smoke is so strong it is causing the tenant and her child to feel unwell."